Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

In our first part, entitled: ‘ You Bigot, Can Political Correctness Keep People from Being Offended,? ’ we looked at how political correctness tries to protect people (especially women, ethnic and sexual minorities) from being offended. As a result, ‘freedom of speech’ takes a big hit. Even the slim possibility that one minorities might be offended means the other party must be closed down verbally … just in case. In Part Two, entitled ‘ I’m Offended: What Should This Really Mean? ’ we learned a Biblical description about this miserable condition. It is a more sensible and far more enduring description than the politically correct one. Today, the broader cultural scene is about the ‘New Tolerance.’ Political correctness (PC) is the mother tongue of the ‘New Tolerance’ and those who lead the charge in politically correctness are the patron saints. Jonathan Sarfati in ‘ The Tyranny of Tolerance’ says  “ Not long ago, the word ‘ tolerance ’ meant ‘bearing or putting up ...